(New York Post) Editorial - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has seemingly dismissed a study indicating that some 40% of the suicide bombers in Iraq have turned out to be from Saudi Arabia. Rumsfeld preferred instead to focus on accusations that Syria is permitting fighters to enter Iraq. Few states are as autocratic as Saudi Arabia. Yet Saudi citizens are somehow flowing out of the country and into Iraq. The status quo amounts to a de facto Wahhabi-directed Muslim civil war on destroying a democratic state of Iraq. The time for excuses from the Saudi princes is over. It's time for the administration to start talking tough with them - and, more to the point, getting tough with them.
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